2017 Trips with the Friends

Join the Friends of the Neill-Cochran House Museum for a six-day adventure in the history and artistry of New England.

The granite of New Hampshire and the Green Mountains of Vermont embraced an impressive range of artistry around the turn of the 20th century, including poets Robert Frost and E E Cummings; painters Winslow Homer and Maxfield Parrish; and America’s foremost sculptor in this period, Augustus St Gaudens, who anchored an artists’ colony at Cornish. An itinerary related to these figures will complement visits to famed houses from Georgian times to Frank Lloyd Wright.

Itinerary Overview – June 25-30, 2017

Portland, Maine

City TourWadsworth-Longfellow House (1785ff., childhood home of the famous poet)Portland Museum of Art with special private visit to Winslow Homer’s Prouts Neck Studio
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Portsmouth

McPhaedris-Warner House (1716, earliest urban brick house in northern New England)Moffatt-Ladd House (1763 elegant Georgian mansion; Portsmouth furniture; NSCDA property)Lunch with New Hampshire Colonial DamesWentworth-Coolidge Mansion (1740ff., harbor-side home of first royal governor)

Lake Champlain

Shelburne Museum of Art (exceptional fine art and vast collections of American material culture)Vermont State Capitol at Montpelier

Dartmouth, Cornish, Plymouth, Windsor

St Gaudens Studio (home, studio and gardens of America’s greatest 19th-century sculptor)Cornish-Windsor Bridge over the Connecticut River (longest wooden covered bridge in the US)Calvin Coolidge Homestead (1870? boyhood home and site of Coolidge’s Presidential oath-taking, 1923)

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A Note On Accessibility

First floor historic rooms, exhibits, and restrooms are wheelchair accessible. Architectural and preservation concerns prevent us from being able to provide elevator service to second floor rooms, however, interpretive materials are available upon request for our second floor exhibits and displays.

If you have any questions or concerns about accessibility, do not hesitate to contact us.